2017 ESA, ESA Certification Corporation, and Entomological Foundation Awards Each year the Entomological Society of America, the ESA Certification Corporation, and the Entomological Foundation provide annual honors and awards to recognize scientists, educators, early professionals, and students who have distinguished themselves through their contributions to entomology. For more information on the ESA, Certification Corporation, and Entomological Foundation Awards, visit www.entsoc.org/awards. ENTOMOLOGY 2017 | NOVEMBER 5–8 | DENVER, COLORADO 43 Awards: Sunday, November 5 2017 ESA, CERTIFICATION and ENTOMOLOGICAL FOUNDATION AWARDS Opening Plenary: ESA Fellows, ESA Honorary Members & Entomological Foundation Medal of Honor ESA’s 2017 Honorary Members and Fellows will be presented during the Opening Plenary Session on Sunday, November 5, 7:30 – 9:30 PM, and the Awards Breakfast on Tuesday, November 7, 7:30 – 9:00 AM. Both sessions will take place in the Four Seasons Ballroom of the Convention Center. Honorary Members Dr. Roger Moon became professor emeritus of entomology at the University of Honorary membership acknowledges those who have Minnesota in St. Paul after 36 years of served ESA for at least 20 years through significant service in research, teaching, and outreach. involvement in the affairs of the Society that has reached an He earned a Ph.D. in entomology from the extraordinary level. Candidates for this honor are selected University of California, Davis, in 1979. His research by the ESA Governing Board and then voted on by the ESA concerns the biology, ecology, and management of filth membership. flies, mosquitoes, bots, keds, lice, bugs, and mites that occur around livestock, wildlife, and people. Roger has Dr. Gene Kritsky, a 41-year member of the published more than 130 articles, reviews, and book Entomological Society of America, received chapters for scientists and the general public, including his B.A. in biology (1974) from Indiana papers on stable fly ecology, swine mange, and University and his M.S. (1976) and Ph.D. fly-borne spread of PRRS virus. He taught or co-taught (1977) in entomology from the University of courses in veterinary entomology, medical entomology, Illinois. He joined the Biology Department at Tri-State veterinary parasitology, insect population dynamics, and University (now Trine University) in 1977 and was applied experimental design, and he has advised 15 awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Minya University in students to master’s and doctorate degrees. Roger Egypt from 1981 to 1982. In 1983, he joined the biology joined the Entomological Society of America as a faculty at Mount St. Joseph University, serving as chair student member in 1976 and has attended every annual (1985–1999 and 2011–2016), director of health meeting since then. He served as chair of ESA’s MUVE sciences (1999–2002), professor (1987–present), and Section, its Meeting Technology Committee, its dean of the School of Behavioral and Natural Sciences Publications Council, three of its editorial boards, and as (2017). He has served ESA as interim editor-in-chief subject editor for the Journal of Medical Entomology (2002–2003) and editor-in-chief (2003–2017) of (2002–2015). Roger was a founding member of the American Entomologist, making him the longest-serving all-entomologist band The Stridulators and has been editor-in-chief in the history of American Entomologist active since retirement as a bass guitarist in several and its predecessor, The Bulletin. Gene has also served geezer cover bands playing in the Twin Cities area. ESA on the Standing Committee on Public Information (1985–1986), the Membership Committee of the ESA Dr. Robert N. Wiedenmann is a professor North Central Branch (1985), and the Publications in the Department of Entomology at the Council (2003–2017). He was a co-convener of the University of Arkansas. He received a B.S. in International Congress of Entomology (2016), co-chair ecology and evolutionary biology (1985) and of the Local Arrangements Committee for the ESA Ph.D. in entomology (1990), both from National Meeting (2003), contributing editor to American Purdue University. After a postdoctoral position in the Entomologist (1998–2003), and chair of the Film biological control labs at Texas A&M University, he Advisory Committee (1986). He produced an ESA public worked for more than a decade at the Illinois Natural service radio series (1984) and presented the Founders’ History Survey. In 2005, he became head of the Memorial Award Lecture (2012). He is a Fellow of the Department of Entomology at Arkansas, serving until American Association for the Advancement of Science 2014, when he stepped down to return to the faculty. and a recipient of the Indiana Academy of Science’s He currently teaches the large-enrollment class “Insects, Distinguished Scholar Award, and he has published Science, and Society” and a hybrid live-distance class, more than 160 papers and 10 books. “Advanced Applied Entomology,” taught collaboratively with the University of Kentucky and Kansas State University. He has been a member of the Entomological Society of America since 1985 and has served ESA in many capacities, including program chair (2003) and Opening Plenary 44 ENTOMOLOGY 2017 | NOVEMBER 5–8 | DENVER, COLORADO Awards: Sunday, November 5 2017 ESA, CERTIFICATION and ENTOMOLOGICAL FOUNDATION AWARDS Opening Plenary: ESA Fellows, ESA Honorary Members & Entomological Foundation Medal of Honor president (2004) of the North Central Branch; president complexes” whose closely related members are of the Plant-Insect Ecosystems Section (2008); local often morphologically identical, yet differ enough arrangements chair for the Southeastern Branch meeting physiologically and behaviorally to contain both (2012); and ESA president (2013). Highlights of his non-vector and vector species. Her research on the service include leading the efforts to develop a Science Anopheles gambiae complex led to a resolution of the Policy Initiative, placing ESA in the policy arena, and historical branching order of its species—a longstanding increasing the Society’s visibility. He also redirected and controversy—and a recognition of the genome-wide strengthened the Student Transition and Early extent of introgression between two of its principal Professional Committee (now Early Career Professionals malaria vectors. Recently her research group has Committee) and furthered the Society’s efforts at begun to explore similar issues in the less well-known globalization and diversity. He led the effort to hold the but medically important An. funestus complex. Other first joint branch meeting, uniting the Southeastern and projects include understanding the role of chromosomal Southwestern Branches (2012). He has conducted inversions in local adaptation, and the genetic basis of research and outreach on biological control of insects ongoing ecological speciation within malaria vectors. and weeds and has been a critic of the potential Supported by the NIH, the Bill & Melinda Gates invasiveness of bioenergy crops. Foundation, and the World Health Organization, her research has resulted in more than 130 scientific publications. Fellows Dr. Besansky led a large international consortium that sequenced and analyzed the genomes of The designation of ESA Fellow recognizes individuals who 16 Anopheles species, and she remains active in have made outstanding contributions to entomology. generating and improving genomic resources for the scientific community. She serves as associate editor for Dr. Nora J. Besansky, O’Hara Professor of PLoS Pathogens and sits on several editorial boards, Biology at the University of Notre Dame including Current Opinion in Insect Science. She served (UND), was elected as Fellow in 2017. She is as member (and chair) of the NIH Vector Biology internationally known for her research on the Study Section. Dr. Besansky teaches undergraduate genetics and evolution of anopheline and graduate courses at UND and has advised 29 mosquito vectors of malaria. graduate students and postdoctoral fellows as well as Dr. Besansky was born in 1960 in Washington, DC, 31 undergraduate researchers. Dr. Besansky has also and grew up in the Maryland suburbs (Silver Spring). been elected Fellow of the American Association for the Her first paid job was as an intern at the newly minted Advancement of Science (2005), the American Society Smithsonian Insect Zoo (1977), followed by summers for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (2014), and the Royal working as a technician at the Beltsville Agricultural Entomological Society (2016). Research Center and the Malaria Section of the Married to fellow medical entomologist Frank Collins for Opening Plenary Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases at the National Institutes more than 30 years, they are the parents of two sons of Health (NIH), where her love of malaria vectors was and the devoted subjects of two cats. first cultivated. She earned a B.A. in biology from Oberlin College in 1982 and a Ph.D. in genetics from Yale University in 1990. After a short postdoctoral fellowship Dr. Lincoln P. Brower, research professor at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of biology at Sweet Briar College and in retroviral diseases, she became a staff scientist with distinguished service professor of zoology the CDC Malaria Branch from 1991 until 1997, when emeritus at the University of Florida, was she joined the University of Notre Dame (UND) as an elected as Fellow in 2017. He is associate professor of biology, rising